Earth Explorer description
Explore the whole earth with true-color satellite images at 1km resolution in a perspective window

Motherplanet's Earth Explorer is a useful application that helps you to understand, learn about, and research our beautiful planet Earth.

You can explore the whole Earth with true-color satellite images at 40m/pixel resolution in a perspective window, just like flying over 36,000 kilometers above the earth on a satellite.

Drag and rotate the global earth, zoom in and zoom out, or save your favorite pictures to the hard disk, all is perspective and so easy.

Here are some key features of "Earth Explorer":

· 3D global view with 50m resolution satellite imagery and shaded relif DEM (digital elevation model) imagery convered entire earth;
· Inlucde 267 countries and regions, 40000+ cities, 15000+ islands, 1700+ noteworthy historical earthquakes and vector layers includes political boundaries, coastlines, rivers, longitude-latitude grids;
· Easy-to-use user interfaces;
· Real-time loading of high resolution data to your desktop;
· Enable addition to user-definable Place Marks, Paths and personal comments over places.
· Measure and calculate distance and bearing between any two points, find a particular country, city, island by name;
· Display Compass, Map Scale and Map Legend.
· Enable Print and Print Preview, and you could control the resolution and size of your print.
· Enable operation under full screen mode
· Enable pan and zoom to rotate and observe the Earth.
· Scroll on mouse's scroll key to zoom in/out;
· Configure to show day/night shadow effect, adjust Gamma to control lumination, or choose a star space as background;


Requirements:

· Pentium II 266, PowerPC G3 800 or faster processor;
· 128MB RAM at minimum, 256MB is recommended;
· 600MB of free hard disk space or more;
· 24bit color monitor, resolution at 800 x 600 or higher;


Limitations:

· 30 days trial
· 5 km/pixel resolution